Are you feeding calves enough milk to obtain maximum growth rates?
Improve future performance. Feed efficiency is very high in the young calf (100g of feed will give 50-60g of growth), but these growth rates drop off dramatically during the first year of life – when 100g of feed will only give 9g of growth. Dr. Milnes highlighted research carried out in the UK ”found that giving calves access to larger amounts of milk at an earlier age increased their weight gain”. Advertisement The study looked at a group of calves restricted to 5L per day and compared them to a group that had excess to ad libitum milk. The study found that calves on the ad libitum mi...
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